Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-10
p AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Snow fell in Norfolk Friday night to the
depth of a foot or more.
Sales of large tracts Of mineral lands to
Northern capitalists have been reported
from Lee and Wise counties within few
days.
Railroad ties are coming in slowly at Pc
tomac city. The lie buyers are anxious to
buy and will take poplar, pine, gum, and
oak.
The negro mechanics of Richmond are to
! hold a meeting to protest against being ex-
Guided from employment on the new City
Hall.
Miss Hannah Lee died at her home in
Prince William county on Wednesday last
from the effects of a burn received several
weeks ago.
The Governor has refused to pardon
James M. Mann, of Scott county, who is
ircarcerated in the penitentiAry for commit.
ting a felony.
| at the last term of the county court OF
Brunswick, held few days ago, over one
hundred persons, white and colored, were
indicted for selling liquor without license.
It is believed that the election of General
E. P. Alexander as president Of the Georgia
Central railroad, means an arrangement be-
tween that and the Richmond and Danvile
system.
The members of the Prince William bar
have requested Hon. E. E. Meredith to per-
NIT his name to be presented as candidate
for reelection as Commonwealth Attorney
for that county.
Mrs. Sallie Farrar, relict of the late DR..
r. f. Farrar, and mother of the popular
and genial Judge r. r. Farrar, died at her
residence, Mohican, Amelia county, last
Thursday, aged IS years.
The Gem iron-furnace, at Mines. Page
county, which has been idle since Novem-
Der 18th by reason of having chilled, was
put in blast on Saturday. Six hundred
hands will again be put to work.
Quite number of the citizens of Peters
burg have been asked their opinion on the
Cluverius case, and nearly all of them are
of the opinion that testimony is lacking to
Justify the in1icton of the death penalty.
The negro man Andrews, who few
weeks ago committed murderous assault
on Captain Shackleford Oh a sloop, was
tried in Warwick county, on Thursday,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for eight
years.
A large concrete magazine in the redoubt
at Fortress Monroe, containing powder and
material for manufacturing pyrotechnics
blew up at p. m. yesterday, from sponta.
neous combustion. The glass in the officers
quarters and hotel were broken.
The Prince William county court have ap
pointed W. B. Glasscock commissioner to
act in conjunction with committee BY the
court of Fairfax county, to view and report
upon the necessary repairs needed on the
Occoquan bridge with the cost OF the same.
A Bristol dispatch says a railroad has
been chartered from that place 10 Elizabeth,
Tenn, distance twenty miles, and compa-
nv has been organized to build it OF once.
A mass meeting was held Friday night to
take steps for raising q subscription to the
new road of 900.
Judge Atkins, of the Richmond hastings
court has summoned fer Wednesday spe-
cial grand jury to inquire whether the OF
fence of barratry, champery or maintenance
has been committed by any lawyer, real es.
tate agent or other persons within the juris-
dction of that court.
The local. option people in Accomac
county are annoyed by the fact that they
have been unable thus far to convict any
BODY for the violation of the no-license law
adopted last spring In all cases where the
trials have ended in hung jury noiiepros-
equi has been entered.
1t is probable that the branch line Of the
Richmond and Danville system from Win.
ston to Mocksville, Davie county, n. c., will
soon be built. 1t will pass through and
greatly develop q fertile section, and may at
no distant day become part of the main
lioe of the Richmond and Danville road.
The development of the bituminous coal
lands in Virginia within the past four years
has been so rapid as to excite the wonder
of the coal producers throughout the coun-
try. Up to the time above mentioned the
coal production of Virginia was compare
lively limited, but in 1856 the rough esti.
mates put the production all the way from
5000 900 to 5,000,0 900 tons.
President Sully, of the Danville Company,
has issued circular under date of January
9th saying: major James II. Dooley, as
second vice. president of the Richmond and
Danvile Railroad Company, has charge of
the legal department of the company, and
Judge 81. H. Marshall as general counsel Of
the company, has charge of the Offices Of
the law department at Washington, D. G..
All reports will be made at the Washington
Office as usual"
! Cluyerius.